Entries from October 2013

Funeral services for James Patrick Paulk, Sr. were held Saturday, September 28, 2013, 1:00 p.m. at the Thankful New Jersey Baptist Church, Baxley. The Reverend B.J. Virgil is the Pastor, Apostle Lorraine Drake, presided and the Reverend Terrell Paulk was the eulogist. Interment followed at the First Pleasant Hill Church Cemetery in Baxley.
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The Appling County Commissioners held a called meeting on Tuesday, September 24. During the meeting Commissioner Ronnie Rentz made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Charlie Leggett, to approve the 2014 Fiscal Year Budget for Appling County. The county projects to have $14,733,708.00 in projected revenue and also projects to spend the same amount over the course of the fiscal year. The motion was approved unanimously.
During the same meeting a motion was made by Commissioner Sarah Boatright, seconded by Commissioner Daryl Edwards, to approve the Resolutions to set the County (12.85 mills), School (14.89 mills), Fire (.47 mills) and State (.15 mills) millage for a total rate of 28.36 mills for 2013. The motion carried unanimously.
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To support our Pirate Football Team and Coaches, ACHS would like to encourage everyone to WEAR RED this Friday and to the football game Friday night, October 4. Excitement is in the air for Friday night's battle with Pierce County!

Our Pirates will wear their RED jerseys and enter the field to the song, "Enter Sandman". The fans are encouraged to show their support by jumping (hopping) up and down and cheering loudly. You may view Virginia Tech Football: Enter Sandman on youtube.com to see an idea of the fan experience anticipated for Friday's football game.

Our team is prepared for this week's challenge. We encourage all Pirate fans to show their support and WEAR RED this Friday!

American Towers LLC is proposing to construct a 310-foot overall height self-support telecommunications tower ~1000’ SE of Piney Grove Church Rd and Rodney Brannen Rd intersection, Surrency, Appling County, GA. The new tower structure will be lit with dual red/white, medium intensity flashing strobe with steady burning red side markers and the tower facility will include a 100’ by 100’ lease area and associated easements, along with a 30-ft buffer surrounding the lease area. American Towers LLC seeks comments from all interested persons on any potential significant impact the proposed action could have on the quality of the human environment pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Section 1.1307, including potential impacts to historic or cultural resources that are listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Interested persons may review the project application pending with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at www.fcc.gov/asr/applications by entering Form 854 File No. A0857701. Interested persons may comment or raise environmental impact concerns about the proposed action by filing a Request for Environmental Review with the FCC. The FCC strongly encourages all interested parties to make such filings online, following the instructions found at www.fcc.gov/asr/environmentalrequest. Paper filings can be sent to: FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554. The Request must also be sent to American Towers LLC, by e-mailing a copy to enviro.services@americantower.com or mailing a copy to: American Tower, 10 Presidential Way, Woburn, MA 01801 ATTN: Environmental Compliance.
Requests or comments should be limited to environmental and historic/cultural resource impact concerns, and must be received on or before October 25. This invitation to comment is separate from any local planning/zoning process that may apply to this project.
9-25 & 10-2ch

RE: PETITION OF JAMES M. BECKWORTH FOR DISCHARGE AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF VIRGINIA B. FORD, DECEASED.
TO: All and singular the heirs of said decedent, the beneficiaries under the Last Will and Testament of said decedent, and to whom it may concern:
This is to notify you to file objection, if there is any, to the above referenced petition, in this Court on or before October 7, 2013.
BE NOTIFIED FURTHER: All objections to the petition must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections. All pleading/objections must be signed before a notary public or before a probate court clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your pleadings/objections unless you qualify to file as an indigent party. Contact probate court personnel at the following address/telephone number for the required amount of filing fees. If any objections are filed, a hearing will be scheduled at a later date. If no objections are filed, the petition may be granted without a hearing.
Diane Hallman, Judge
Probate Court of Appling County
38 South Main Street
Baxley, GA 31513
(912) 367-8114
9-25 & 10-2ch

This is to notify the person who abandoned a 2003 Ford Expedition (VIN#1FMRU17W43LB16263) at 1129 Hatch Parkway North that you must identify and pay wrecker bill, storage and remove from property by October 12, 2013.
Otherwise the vehicle will become the property of Livingston’s Garage & Wrecker Service, Inc.
10-2 and 10-9ch

As directed by the Georgia Public Service Commission, Atlanta Gas Light Company filed its Petition for Approval of 2013-2017 Integrated Customer Growth Program Plan with the Georgia Public Service Commission on August 5, 2013. Copies of the 2013-2017 Integrated Customer Growth Program Plan are on file with the Georgia Public Service Commission. This matter has been assigned Docket No. 37371 and has been scheduled for public hearing before the Georgia Public Service Commission on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (and Wednesday, November 13, 2013, if necessary) at 10:00 a.m. in Room 110 of the Georgia Public Service Commission offices located at 244 Washington Street, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30334. Anyone interested in this matter will be given the opportunity to express his or her view pursuant to O.C.G.A. Section 46-2-59.
In accordance with O.C.G.A. Section 46-2-59(c) and the Procedural and Scheduling Order issued in this docket, persons wishing to intervene must file a Petition to Intervene with the Georgia Public Service Commission within thirty (30) days of the first publication of this notice.
An original and fifteen (15) copies of any pre-filed testimony of statements by interveners along with a 3 - 1/2 inch diskette or CD ROM containing an electronic version of this filing in Microsoft Word for text documents or Excel for spread sheets must be filed with the Georgia Public Service Commission’s Executive Secretary by 4:00 p.m. on October 10, 2013 in accordance with the Procedural and Scheduling Order issued in this docket. Any expert testimony or testimony of a technical nature must by pre-filed. Parties of record must also file with one another copies of any pre-filed testimony. Intervenor testimony will be heard at the hearing scheduled for November 12, 2013 (and November 13, 2013, if necessary).
If you have a disability and will need assistance or accommodations to participate, or need further information, please contact the Executive Secretary’s Office, Georgia Public Service Commission at (404) 656-4501 or 1-800-282-5813 (inside Georgia only) at least one day prior to the hearing in this matter.
This notice is published at the direction of the Georgia Public Service Commission. David C. Weaver
Vice President
Regulatory and Governmental Affairs
Atlanta Gas Light Company
10-2ch

As directed by the Georgia Public Service Commission, Atlanta Gas Light Company filed its Petition for Approval of 2013-2017 Integrated System Reinforcement Plan with the Georgia Public Service Commission on August 5, 2013. Copies of the 2013-2017 Integrated System Reinforcement Plan are on file with the Georgia Public Service Commission. This matter has been assigned Docket No. 37370 and has been scheduled for public hearing before the Georgia Public Service Commission on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (and Wednesday, November 13, 2013, if necessary) at 10:00 a.m. in Room 110 of the Georgia Public Service Commission offices located at 244 Washington Street, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30334. Anyone interested in this matter will be given the opportunity to express his or her view pursuant to O.C.G.A. Section 46-2-59.
In accordance with O.C.G.A. Section 46-2-59(c) and the Procedural and Scheduling Order issued in this docket, persons wishing to intervene must file a Petition to Intervene with the Georgia Public Service Commission within thirty (30) days of the first publication of this notice.
An original and fifteen (15) copies of any pre-filed testimony of statements by interveners along with a 3 1/2 inch diskette or CD ROM containing an electronic version of this filing in Microsoft Word for text documents or Excel for spread sheets must be filed with the Georgia Public Service Commission’s Executive Secretary by 4:00 p.m. on October 10, 2013 in accordance with the Procedural and Scheduling Order issued in this docket. Any expert testimony or testimony of a technical nature must by pre-filed. Parties of record must also file with one another copies of any pre-filed testimony. Intervenor testimony will be heard at the hearing scheduled for November 12, 2013 (and November 13, 2013, if necessary).
If you have a disability and will need assistance or accommodations to participate, or need further information, please contact the Executive Secretary’s Office, Georgia Public Service Commission at (404) 656-4501 or 1-800-282-5813 (inside Georgia only) at least one day prior to the hearing in this matter.
This notice is published at the direction of the Georgia Public Service Commission.
David C. Weaver
Vice President
Regulatory and Governmental Affairs
Atlanta Gas Light Company
10-2ch

Sealed proposals for furnishing all labor, material, equipment and, other things necessary for the following work will be received by the undersigned at the Department of Transportation, One Georgia Center, 600 West Peachtree St., NW, Atlanta, Georgia, 30308 until 11:00 a.m., October 18, 2013 and publicly opened.
11.750 miles of milling, plant mix resurfacing, double surface treatment paving and shoulder rehabilitation on SR 121 beginning North of SR 15 and extending South of SR 27.
(E)
CONTRACT TIME: 9/30/2014
DISTRICT OFFICE: JESUP
PROPOSAL GUARANTY: 5.00%
PRICE OF PLANS: AS INDICATED
DBE: 7.00
Plans and specifications may be inspected at the District Office as indicated. Copies of the Standard Specifications ($35.00) may be obtained from the State Transportation Office Engineer at One Georgia Center, 600 West Peachtree St., NW, in Atlanta, telephone number (404) 631-1215. Plans are available as indicated. Payment of the correct amount must be made within 30 days of billing; such payments are not refundable.
Payment will be made to the contractor each calendar month based on the estimated work complete in place as prescribed by the Standard Specifications.
THE STATE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY OR ALL BIDS.
KEITH GOLDEN, P. E., COMMISSIONER
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
10-2 & 10-9ch

The Appling Christian Academy Eagles hosted the Kings Way Crusaders, of Douglasville, on Friday, September 27, at Eagle Field. These two teams have created a rivalry over the past few years and have faced each other in the state championship game in the past. Friday night was no different as both teams provided hard hitting during the game. The Eagles lost the game 38-16, which snapped an 18-game winning streak for Appling Christian prior to Friday night.
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The Baxley City Council held its regularly scheduled meeting Sept. 24 and during the meeting City Manager Jeff Baxley announced that the FY2013 Amended General Fund Budgets for general government operations and expenditures amounted to $3,974,444.00 and the Amended Water and Sewer total expenditures amounted to $2,207,298.00. Councilman Tim Varnadore made a motion to adopt a resolution approving the FY2013 Amended General Fund and Water/Sewer Revenue Fund Budgets. Betty Livingston seconded the motion and this was approved unanimously.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated Appling as among 79 counties in Georgia as primary natural disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by excessive rain that began April 1, 2013, and continuing.
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The descendants of Patrick Lamar Smith and Molly Hutto Smith will hold their annual reunion on Sunday, October 6 at Red Oak Baptist Church Social Hall. All relatives and friends are cordially invited.
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The Appling County High School Class of 1966 will be holding their 47th class reunion at Sarah’s in the City on Saturday, October 5 at 7:00 p.m. Please get the information forms filled out, and return even if not attending! A class photo will be taken at 6:55 p.m., so come early.
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